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THE UNION TIMES ti . . . . . . .... - W PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ....by the ... ^ UNION TIMES COMPANY <l . . . _ t i BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE 'I POST OFFICE. , bell phone no. 1. L. M. RICE. - - - Editor, f S. E. BONEY, Local Editor, i ?i Registered at tin' PostoHiee in Union S. C. as second class mail matter. * senseuiptiox rates: < One year ... - $1.00 Six months .... .51") Three months ... .25 j a 1>vkutiskm knts : I One square, first insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50 uimirncis i<>r uiriT iikiiiui> i>r hmijjit r will Ik' made at reduced rates. i Locals inserted at H 1-3 cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be re- 1 tu-ned. Obituaries and tributes of . resnect will be charged for at half rates. 'I HNTON, S. <\, Al'G. I 0. 11MIJ. ( We are not in favor of county ' <lis|K'nsaries any more tlian we are * in favor of the state dispensary. It :l is the same old spirit of ruin and ' degradation wrought by l>oth. The <= same old whiskey, the same old 1 corruption, the same old drunkenness and murdt r. Down with the :l liquor trallie! - ( 1 Is prohibition a humbug in | l llion? We do not helieve it he so. t There is les- of drunkeness, less of , arrests, fewer inmates of our jail , and fewer ease- in our police e<nuts. , Any man who desires to inform i himself can have access to the hooks < * >f t he SheriiY <>f the < ounty, and to \ the I) niks of the Mayor's court. | The conditions are vastly better j now than they were under the ?lis-,' pon.siry rule. , If the profits on whisky now go to North Carolina where did such profits go in the days of the dis* ( peusary? Mostly to North Carolina, for there the whiskey was manufactured. Certainly not to Union County, for Union County < ... . I " . fM. > k * .1L i ' ( Carolina five dollars for whiskey and got haek one. This latter dol- ' lar was used in looking after the convicts and paupers the whisky produced. Where was the profit? 1 ?i ? ( Senator Tillman says: "They ' have given you the nastiest whiskey ' that (lod ever allowed a man to ; A. V* ... __ . 11 1 concoct. ri>t?v 11 you wuu'i goon ^^_--luskey iiiiil the disjiensary, vote .*..-Manning^-,-\LLsupi>ort the Rayteen years of dispensary"iu FourCarolina has demonstrated the fact that there is no sueh thing as running a State whisky business without corruption. The trouble is in . the nature of the business. No J amount of legislation will put the business out of the reach of the | grafters and bribers. It is a wicked business?that's all. Senator Tillman's hand primary/; 011 "dispensary or 110 disjiensary" Friday need not scare any honest prohibitionist. Few of the prohibitionists held up their hands. They do not need to do so. Many of the dispensary advocates did hold 1 up their hands. This is not strange. It was a time when the dispensary forces were massed and ready to make a show down. The 111?l(V y(fl- ('( MIH', j It is hard to lielieve that the major- < itv of I'nion County citizens will lend their vote to support a thing ' as had as the dispensary. We do J not helieve that they will do so, the hand primary to the contrary notwithstanding. - 1 "The dispensary constables have * been very active the past week and a number of cases have been la-fore \ the recorder. Yesterday the fol- r lowing were dis|>osedof: W. .1. Boltknight, 820 or oOdays; 1 John Taylor, or oUdays; .lolm 1 (Iciger, or >() days; .John I Moore, C.i) or :;<) days; Anna ,) Washington, *o0 or ."><> days; I'M. * ( arpenbT, selling whiskey, S'JM; storing whiskey, or .">() days in " each case. F The decision l-.a- been reserved in si the case of .J. M. I'eak, charged n with selling whiskey. rjThere is a case before one of the . eitv magistrates against William 1 Mcdin, white, charged with viola- *1 on of tin* disjiensary law, which i ill In- heard tomorrow." The above is from Tin; State, of , nigust !>. It go -s to show that the j ispensary docs not suppress "blind \ igers." Dining the dispensary , avs in I'nion blind tigers llonri.-h- } d in I'nion '"likea green hay tree." ( t is well-nigh impossible to g?-t at t 'hlind tigers ' when the dispensary i urnishes all the liipior necessary j rom a half pint to font* ami three ' liiarter gallons. Talk alnint ''hlind i ig? rs" under prohihition! They ] lourished and fattened under the lispensary rule. "I believe in Democracy as reigion,*' says Senator Tillman. I'he Kditor of Tin: Ti.mks believes 11 the Christian religion, hut is as vholc-hearted a Democrat as is | senator Tillman. In polities, soiefy and religion the principles of )emoeraoy arc deeply centered in he heart of the Kditor of Tiik I'IMKs. hot the people sjieak. We lo not desire to destroy the liberies of the jMople of Uiiion eounty., A't the majority rule. That is our loetrine. It is, however, our right : iud duty to try to mould public ' pinion to ideals that are right and 1 food. We believe the whiskey rattle is a giant machine of the i It*vi 1. Dispensary, o|>en bar, all J re one and the same thing, ehilIren of the devil. If the majority if the voters of Union eounty will lave the dispensary, we submit to he rule of the majority. But we tier our protest, as a true Denio rat has a right to do. And we diall continue to tight for the over throw nt this wicked business, as ive have a right to <lo, as long as there is left ill lis one oilllee of manhood and conviction. Let the people of I 11ion county speak. They are free. But let it also he reiiieinhered hy the people of I'nion ounty that it is also true: "Wliatiever a man sowetli, that shall he ilso reap." It is the black harvest if ruined manhood, Blighted iionies, hungry women and chillren, red-handed murder and wholesale debauchery that come in as a "consequence of the liquor trattic. It is the horrible picture of ruin and despair that makes the1 Editor of this paper swear eternal , war against the whole dirty husi-; riess. Let the people of I'nion county speak. It is their Godjiven right. But let them remember that they must assume rcspon-' nihility for every word sp<iken. It ! is the fear of (lod, the love we have , for our fellow-men, the strong conviction that the liquor tr..ttic is a child of the devil that leads us to iY^ak in no uncertain tones. Ixd words. We are 'Tioi1 fitness our afraid to speak. "?r IRBY'S CHARGES. The following is from our last week's report of the big speaking in Union on Friday: Mr. Irby said that his candidacy was looked upon as a joke simply l>eeause the newspapers had not done him justice by allowing the facts to l?e known. "I sent a deni- J al of somo charges against me, Here to your two Union papers and they haven't publiscd a word of it; i and yet I understand that the editor of one of these papers is a minister of the (Jospel, a man whose aim should Is* to let tl e truth l>e known. 1 despise a hypocrite, and above all a minister who is one. I have my religion in my heart ami it's no hypocrite's religion, but that >f Jesus Christ. I have stood in the halls of the egislature and given the mills all Jie hell I could. Mr. H. C. Kittle am tell you that. "1 have my religion in my heart, i ind it's no hypocrite's religion, hut! hat of Jesus Christ." But for, hesc words the Editor of Thk! I'imks would have passed over the vhole incident without a word of enionstranee. Mr. Irhy's profess(1 allegiance to Jesus Christ calls ip to the lips a kindly answer to lis baseless charges, for it is to esus Christ that this Editor looks or leadership. What is the charge f Mr. Irhy? 'I'm: Timks did not iiihlish a circular letter that was 1 flit it along with all the other ] ewspapers of the State. Thk ! imks received the letter and threw j in the waste basket, a receptacle | iat receives quite a number of doc- \ iments every week. We have no' pology to make for this, for it is >ur custom to edit the paper, not >lay at editing it. We are in league vitli no hank, cottton mill, trustor >il mill. The Kditor of Tin-: Timkh ins and will hereafter do just' lie tiling that commends itself o his mind as right and wise. i\*e have never circulated any reports tn the detriment of Mr: Irhy. j i\V, therefore, felt that he had no! reason for demanding that we givei him free space in Tin-: Tim us to advertise himself. We do not yet see why Mr. Irhy has any cause for publicly denouncing the Kditor as a "minister of the Gospel and a hypocrite." Brother Irhy evidently does not know the Editor of Tin: Tim lis. Whatever else may he said airainst this Editor, it will hnrdlv - -V . l>o accepted by the people of Union I County that In* is "a hypocrite." A number of hard things could trutfully he said of him, no doubtbut the "hypocrite" charge w\M hardly go with people who know him. Nearly twelve years he has -t mil before the people of I nioo ind Union County, and they know lie is no "hypocrite." And they know, too, that when his name is put at the head of the editorial columns of Thk Timks, it means that lie is in fact editing the paper. That, is the trouble with Bro. Irby's Circular letter. It was edited, and ?consigned to the waste basket, j For this we have no apology to make. "Wilful and malicious lie, and those who are scattering it are simply liars and slanderers," does, not look well in cold type. We do, not use such expressions in writing, tor lnr. Timks, ami we do not sec that outsiders haw any right to demand free space to say such things. We are running a high-grade county newspaper. We make it clean first, last ami all the time. It goes into the homes of I'nion county people. Children and young people read it, as well as older people.' We purpose going to them from week to week with a clean, swqct message. We helped to circulate ita "lies and slanders" upon ini't it is none of our business to* refuh' such ugly things. In the circular letter sent us hy Bro. Irhy, the following sentence also occurs: j "I am in the race for Congress to do everything in my power to stop the tyranny and oppression of the cotton mills, the extortion and fraud of the oil mills and fertilizer companies, ami the thieving practices of powerful hanking institutions and other great corporations." All of which we feel to he not in the least applicable to affairs in j Union and Union County. We do; not know of any "thieving practices , >f powerful hanking institutions" in rYw , t , , ~ know of my tyranny and oppression ^ ^ ton mills" in Union and Unfou County. We do know that coring ' able amounts of the stock is owned by widows and orphans in Un?n Cbunty. We know, too, that (lie people working in these mills are, as a rule, happy and prosperois, j ami that they are people, many of them, horn and reared in Union County. They are good, honest* hard-working citizens, and do not need instructions from Mr. Irbyor uiau. iiu oi wiiici) we respectfully refer to Mr. Irby. "I have stood in the halls of the legis-; lature and given the mills all the\ hell I could," concluded this wouldbe liberator of an enslaved people, lint it is just this tendency to an-1 archy that leads us to a more decided conviction that we were, right in refusing free space to advcrtifc such a candidate. Union County Republican Convention. The Kepublican County Convention held in the colored Odd FVl-j lows hiill here Monday passed oil very quietly, though at one time it looked as though there might he trouble over a resolution which friends of Postmaster J. <Hunter attempted to have the convention pass. In former years when there were . two factions of Ucpuhlicans in ' south Carolina these conventions j were very lively, and often resulted n lights among the delegates, hut iiasmuch as there is now only one; 'action assuming the name of the nion Republican Party their conditions are quite tame affairs, | I Sixty Thousai Of Dry Goodsr Notions, Shoes, C Sj** to go. This stock of goods for ai lag Dry Goods Co. will be thrown on of his Lockhart's original "Mill slaughter! on all goods in every HI Remember this is a Genui m and starts July 27th igfjS Fruit of the Loom Bleaching, 10 yar( gs Wash Fabrics, Mill End Price, per ys IXj Lot of Silk Waist Patterns worth $i.( Eg8 Lot of Silks, worth 50 to 75c, Mill Ei alpo Lot Short End Silks, worth $1.00, M &?3 300 Yards all Silk Taffeta Grey, Brov ggj they last, Mill End Price m " gag The Prices given is a slight hint Sale wi |1! Mens's Suits " $20 00 and $18 50 SUITS 16 50 and 15 00 13 50 and 12 50 11 50 and 10 00 8 50 ^7 50 6 00 and 5 00 Lot of Co* WORTH $12 50 AND $10 ( 7 50 " 8 5 Collars 8c. Hose 6c. Shirts 39c. Wool Shirl SHOES?You save dollars on S Mutual Dry H R. P. m there being nothing to light over but the county chairmanship. ^ The meeting Monday was coin- JjL posed of aixnit o() delegates and JJr besides Postmaster Hunter the only 1 other white man present was Mr. | Tf W M 1 David C. Gist. -Si I In the course of the meeting .Jno. '-ill \^k 1). Norris introduced a resolution j J>. I I ^ praising the party and the good it J i ' bad accomplished in the Nation, | j ? but when he read the article com- j T" ; mending the managemet of the -SI Union Postottiee and endorsing 1| Postmaster Hunter for his efticiency and the able manner in which he T v.:,, ' ^ I au111l(3tUIt-Vi HID UUUL'S its pUMIIUlS" I J ter, several of the colored dele- i T1 gii tea op|>o.sed the resolution and 11 quite a good deal of debate ensued .1 I between Norris and James M. Wal- j , lace representing Postmaster H??n* A i cr~?'? aiul ^i??>n and J Wade Hampton who were opposed X ' to the convention going on record ^ I as sustainining that part of the .2 i resolution commending Hunter. | i The matter was killed by a vote of 85 to 12. i' ?n It is said that Mr. Hunter took T1 the floor anil was severe in { remarks to those deletpites who! refused to give him their support ? , and the endorsement of the con- t, 1 vention, which seems to have been 1! I the practice in former years. !* Besides electing delegates to the j State convention, a committee of three was ap|stinted as referees to confer with National committeeman! T l'a|>ers in the matter of federal ap- | ===== pointments for the county. "? Where is Mrs. Hnhiirn? 2 ? "i_m Echo answers, where! Word was received from Mr. Walter Sanders, now of Camden, in a 1? letter to his father, Sheriff J? Sanders of Union, in which he TP states that Deputy Sheriff White, of Spartanburg, was in Camden A this week looking for Mrs. Ho- <2, burn. He had been on track of TT W W her from Lancaster to within 15 jf LI ^ miles of Camden, and it was ru- I | * mored that she was making her ^11/ way to the latter place. Upon ^ 11% search among the people of the mills, however, no trace of her Uas found. She was said to be ^ making for a party by the name Tf af Gilbert. Where is Mrs. Hoburn? Not that it matters, much, but anyway, where is Mrs. Hoburn- . % 49 Easl Use Tetley's Teas jf For Iced Tea. nd Dollar Stock I lothing, Hats and Millinery Goods |?| II seasons, belonging to the Mutual fig the market by Mr. Lockhart in one g|jS End" Sales which means slaughterl . IPS department. fig ne Lockhart "Mill End" Sale S Continuing for 10 Days. g !<; to thp riKtnmpr Mill FnH Prirp 7r j?5l lrd 3ic asS )0, Mill End Price 49c rag nd Price 25c igg ill End Price 49c S*? vn, Garnet, Black and Navy, while 39c g % : as to what the "Mill End" Price ga II save you. ??? Mill End" Prices. 1| "MILl END" PRICE $13 48 ||| its and Vests. feg >0 "MILL END" PRICE $6 95 Kp ts 35g. Suspenders 7g. Balbriggin Undershirts 19g pg hoes at. this "Mill End" PriGe Sale. Goods Co., I LlbudZXl2ll2ll2ll2ll2tl2$4> tit *A* r At * A* *At ?A? * A* .1. ?$ MEET ME AT HAILE'S SHOE STORE. ^ ^ IVESTIQATEi ...OUR LINE Op... I 2.50 SHOES ' ' * ?* OR WORKINGMEN. j| - e Store That Shoes the People. " l % i ^ tile Shoe Co., J The Leading Shoe House. 1 ?* t Main Street Union, South Carolina 31 -I * ... 45.. , ? *? . '. ?. .,??